Lexmark Z645 Printer

[D. Michael McIntyre]

On Sunday 02 December 2007, Mike Leone wrote:

> David McGlone wrote:
> > her that her printer wouldn't work because Lexmark is shady.
>
> Lexmark is not "shady". They just design their products and software for
> an OS that you don't use. You don't have to like, or approve of their
> choices. But don't call them shady just because their products don't
> work in Linux.

I agree with your position in general, and I wouldn't use the term "shady" 
either.  However, the printer I wrestled with actually had Tux printed right 
on the box, and that was pretty deceptive of them.  It came with an old 
binary driver for a version of Red Hat that was obsolete at the time of 
purchase, and that was all they felt they needed to do to claim "Works with 
Linux" prominently.

I wouldn't go as far as shady, but I thought they had misappropriated poor Tux 
for sure.  I didn't do my homework on that one, and got burned.

I hope they're no longer printing Tux on their boxes.
-- 
D. Michael McIntyre